Cultivating To Immortality

"Poof."

The blue-robed youth's full-force sword strike was unstoppable, and the sword light, guided by the spatial rift, directly slashed towards his own neck.

As the white sword light flashed, the blue-robed youth actually cut off his own head. Blood gushed from his neck, staining the ground.

"Ughh."

The head, which had fallen to the ground, had wide, terrified eyes, and muffled sounds still came from its throat.

At this moment, Fang Hong's figure slowly materialized from the void.

He expressionlessly glanced at the head and headless corpse on the ground, then lifted a foot and kicked the blue-robed youth's headless corpse away.

"Spa-spatial Law."

The blue-robed youth's head could still speak; as expected of a True Immortal Cultivator, even with his head separated from his body, he did not die immediately, showing quite tenacious vitality.

Fang Hong did not delay in the slightest. He immediately conjured the demon soul banner, and with a slight wave in the air, two soul shadows floated out from the corpses of the blue-robed youth and the White-Robed Female Cultivator.

Fang Hong quickly cast a sealing technique, sealing the two individuals' souls within the demon soul banner, intending to deal with them later once he was safe.

Immediately after, Fang Hong took out the years pearl, and after a flash of light, the three corpses vanished into thin air, absorbed into the internal space of the years pearl.

Having completed all of this, Fang Hong no longer lingered. His figure flickered, and he quickly flew into the distance, leaving the area where the battle had just occurred.

Fang Hong found an inconspicuous small mountain peak in the nearby forest and casually opened up a temporary small Immortal Cave.

He set up several concealed defensive restrictions at the entrance of the Immortal Cave, ensuring it wouldn't be easily discovered, before confidently entering the internal space of the years pearl to inspect his spoils of war.

Upon entering the internal space of the years pearl, Fang Hong first focused his gaze on the corpses of the two cultivators.

He found a gray storage bag in a hidden pocket on the inner side of each of their clothes.

Fang Hong could clearly feel that a soul restriction covered the surface of the storage bag, which could only be removed and thus opened by refining the soul of the person who set the restriction.

Otherwise, forcibly breaking it might damage the items inside the storage bag.

Without further ado, Fang Hong immediately conjured the demon soul banner. The banner flag gently swayed, and two sealed souls floated out from the banner, suspended in mid-air.

"You demon. We have no grievances with you, why did you lay such a cruel hand on us?" The blue-robed youth's soul asked in terror when he saw Fang Hong.

Fang Hong ignored him and immediately began to perform soul-searching on him to obtain useful information.

In less than half an incense stick's time, Fang Hong successfully read the memories of both the blue-robed youth and the White-Robed Female Cultivator.

The gains from this soul-searching were quite good, allowing Fang Hong to learn many things he didn't know before and answering some of his doubts.

First, regarding the identities and origins of the two cultivators.

Through soul-searching, Fang Hong learned that the male cultivator was named Zhang Hai, and the female cultivator was named Huang Yue; they were husband and wife.

They came from a Cultivation Family called Zhang Family and were both one of the Old Ancestors in the Family, holding a respectable position within it.

However, this Zhang Family was just an ordinary cultivation family, without too powerful a background or strength, nor was it entangled with other forces, so there was no need to worry about attracting retaliation from a powerful force for killing them.

Secondly, from their memories, Fang Hong learned about the knowledge of Immortal Cultivation realms.

It turned out that the Immortal cultivation realms were similar to the cultivation system of the Lower Realm, with extremely strict grade divisions.

From lowest to highest, they were: True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Immortal King, Immortal Emperor, Heavenly Venerate, and finally, attaining Dao and becoming a Saint.

Fang Hong only knew that he had broken through to the True Immortal realm but did not know that there were so many higher realms above True Immortal.

This immediately filled his heart with a strong yearning, and he instantly clarified his next cultivation goal.

Regarding the specific cultivation direction of the True Immortal realm, Fang Hong now finally understood it through their memories.

The True Immortal realm is the foundational realm of Immortal Cultivation; although it is only foundational, it also has detailed divisions, being divided into ten small realms from one to ten.

To advance in the True Immortal realm, one needs to open Immortal Apertures in specific parts of the body.

These parts are the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, both arms, both legs, and the head, a total of ten parts, corresponding to the ten small realms of the True Immortal realm.

Only then did Fang Hong realize that the swirling black hole in his heart was an Immortal Aperture, a mysterious space specifically used to store Immortal Qi.

Looking at it this way, he had already opened the Heart Aperture and was a cultivator of True Immortal First Layer.

After True Immortal Cultivators open an Immortal Aperture, what they need to do next is to continuously absorb the Immortal Qi between heaven and earth and refine it into pure Immortal Qi.

Fill the Immortal Aperture with Immortal Qi until it reaches a saturated state, and then, based on this, gradually open the Immortal Apertures in the other nine parts.

Only when all ten Immortal Apertures are opened and filled with Immortal Qi can one be considered truly at True Immortal Perfection, qualifying to challenge higher realms.

As for the Golden Immortal realm above True Immortal, Zhang Hai and his wife Huang Yue had never been exposed to the cultivation methods of the Golden Immortal realm, so their memories contained no information on how to advance to Golden Immortal.

Fang Hong could only temporarily set this question aside and slowly explore the method of advancing to Golden Immortal once he found higher-grade Immortal Arts in the future.

Zhang Hai and his wife's cultivation was not too high.

Zhang Hai had just broken through to True Immortal Second Layer a few days ago, while his wife Huang Yue's cultivation was True Immortal First Layer.

Only then did Fang Hong seize the opportunity to launch a surprise attack and succeed.

After dealing with Zhang Hai and his wife, Fang Hong immediately performed soul-searching on the Purple Flame Serpent.

As one of the three Demon Kings of the Silver Moon Mountains, the Purple Flame Serpent had been entrenched in this area for many years and was very likely to know the specific circumstances of the other two Demon Kings.

This was precisely the crucial information Fang Hong wanted to obtain from its memory.

Not long after, Fang Hong successfully read the Purple Flame Serpent's memory and obtained two pieces of information that pleasantly surprised him.

The first piece of information was naturally about the other two Demon Kings of the Silver Moon Mountains.

According to the Purple Flame Serpent's memory, the Blue Ice Alligator's Cultivation had already reached True Immortal Third Layer, its strength far exceeding Zhang Hai, who had just advanced to True Immortal Second Layer.

And the Silver Moon Monkey's Cultivation was even more profound, directly reaching True Immortal Fifth Layer, making it the strongest existence among the three Demon Kings.

Fang Hong secretly calculated in his heart that the strength of these two Demon Kings should not be underestimated.

With his current cultivation, if he rashly sought them out, he might not get a good outcome.